Re: pysam package
Hi Diane,
thanks for your offer to work together with the Debian Med team.
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 07:02:35PM -0800, Diane Trout wrote:
> I've been maintaining a pysam package for my lab, and realized that other people might find pysam[1] useful.
>
> I used stdeb, git-buildpackage, and pbuilder to make my own package[2]. Unfortunately since I haven't actually talked to experienced packagers I'm sure there are improvements I could be making. (For instance I need to figure out how to run pysam's tests in debian/rules.)
>
> Would it be worthwhile to work toward making an official package? (And if so a pointer for what to do next would be appreciated).
It seems you are not aware of our tasks list about packages we just
integrated or are about to integrat into Debian. If you check out
http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/bio-dev#python-pysam
you see that there is some (somehow similar to your) work done. You can
also see a remark why the package did not made it into a real official
package yet.
I would suggest you could check our team policy[0] how to become a
member and thus granted write permissions to the repository. Than we
could work out some way to remove the blocking points (either by dealing
+ documenting the code duplication properly) or by just using the
prepackaged components and work together with upstream to stop the code
duplication.
I hope you like this suggestion - at least we would be happy about
another helping hand for packaging free software for biomedical
research.
Kind regards
Andreas.
[0] http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html
> [1] https://code.google.com/p/pysam/
> [2] http://woldlab.caltech.edu/gitweb/?p=pysam.git;a=summary
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